Delivery-member hoist for ensilage-cutters



E. 8. CHARLES. DELIVERY MEMBER HOIST FOR ENSILAGE CUTTERS.

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EDWARD SANFORD CHARLES, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS, TO INTERNATIONAL HARV ESTER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

DELIVERY-MEMBER HOIST FOR EN SILAGE-CUTTERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed January 12, 1916. Serial No. 71,644.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, EDWARD S. CHARLES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Delivery-Member Hoists for Ensilage-Cutters, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact specification.

My invention relates to delivery member hoists for ensilage cutters.

It has for its object to enable an ensilage delivery member or distributor to be readily placed in position upon the delivery pipes of an ensilage cutter even when the same are used in filling the tallest silos. A more specific object of my invention is to provide improved means for hoisting a delivery member, and especially one of distributor form, and attaching the same to the delivery pipes at the top of the silo without it being necessary for an operator to ascend the silo and manually connect the parts. I attain these objects by providing an improved construction, of hoist and connect ing means whereby the delivery member may be hoisted into position upon the delivery end of the delivery pipes and dropped into an operative connection therewith, the operator being upon the ground.

In the accompanying drawings I have, for purposes of illustration, shown one embodiment which my invention may assume in practice.

In these drawings:

Figure 1 is a partial side elevation of the delivery pipes extending over into a silo with the distributor hoisting means attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is a detail side elevation of the dis tributer hoisting means;

Fig. 3 is an end view of the construction shown in Fig. 2.

As in the usual construction, delivery pipes 1 are connected end to end and disposed vertically at the side of a silo, a portion of which is indicated in dotted lines at 2, the usual curved upper delivery member 3 of the pipes passing over the upper end of the silo or through a suitable opening therein.

In my improved construction a suitable upstanding bifurcated bracket 4 is mounted upon this delivery member 3, and upon this bracket are fastened two supporting straps 5, one on each side, between which is journaled a sheave (3, the support 5 being braced on the frame and the rope on the sheave l. eing held therein by a suitable upwardly and laterally disposed ,U-n1ember7 Formed preferably upon one of the feet of the bracket 4 is a hook member 8, open at the top and having a laterally disposed end 9 which is adapted to be received in an opening 10 formed in the upper end of a delivery member to be placed in position, shown herein in the form of a distributor 11, when said member is hoisted above the end 9 by means of a rope 12 connected to the upper'cnd of the distributor at 13 and extending 'upward through a slot in the hook end 9 and around the sheave 6.

When my improved construction is used and it is desired to place the distributor 11 in position within the silo, the rope 12 is passed around the sheave 6 before the delivery member 3 is elevated into position, and, after the latter is in position, the distributor is then hoisted until it passes beyond the end portion 9 on the hook member 8. When in this position, by suitable manipulation of the rope 12, the opening 10 in the upper end. of the distributor may, obviously, be brought over the hooked end of the extension 9 on the member 8. as shown in Fig. 1, so that this extension will pass through the opening 10 when the distributor is again lowered and the latter will settle down into the hook portion of the member 8, as shown in Fig. 2. \Vhen in this position the rope obviously may be left connected to the distributor as desired, the same extending down along the outer wall of the silo, as illustrated, in such a position that it is out of the operators way.

Obviously, with the distributor connected as shown in Fig. 2, the operator may adjust the distributor while distributing the ensilage within the silo by movement of the distributor 11 and its connected delivery sections 15 in a well-known manner, suflicient play being provided between the connections to permit free movement of the dis tributer. It is also obvious that when the silo is filled and an operator on the ground desires to lower the distributor, he may readily do so, and that whenever for any reason it is wished to remove the distributor before the silo is filled, this may readily be done by simple manipulation of the rope 12 to disengage the distributer from its hook. It is also to be noted that the construction may be very readily and cheaply manufactured and applied to any standard delivery memher or distributer at small expense.

'While I have in this application specifically described one embodiment which my invention may assume in course, to be understood that the invention may be modified and embodied in other forms without departing from its spirit, it being my object to include all such modifications within the scope of the appended claims.

What I claim as new is:

1. In. combination, an ensilage deflecting member, a cooperating distributer, means for hoisting said distributer to a position adjacent said deflecting member, a portion of said distributer being positioned above said deflecting member, and means for guiding the distributer into operative position as said distributer is lowered.

2. In combination, a stationary ensilage delivery chute, a cooperating distributer, a hook carried on said chute receivable by said distributer, and hoisting means conneoted to said chute and distributer for hoisting said distributer to a position in which a portion of said distributer is disposed above said chute and connecting the same to the hook on said chute.

3. In a hoisting mechanism for ensilage delivery members, a delivery member, an

upstanding bracket carried thereon at a point above the delivery end thereof, a hook member extending laterally over the end of Copies of this patent may be obtained for practice, it is, of

five cents each, by Washington, D. 0.

said delivery member, and a sheave jourjgaled on said bracket above said hook mem- 4,. In combination, an ensilage delivery chute, a distributer, means for hoisting said distributer to operative position adjacent said chute and upwardly inclined means car ried by said chute and above which the upper ends of said distributer may be hoisted for operatively connecting said chute and said distributer when the distributer is lowered into operative position.

5. In combination, an ensilage delivery chute, a distributing member, means for hoisting said tive position adjacent said chute, and upwardly projecting means carried by said chute above which the upper ends of said distributer may be hoisted for movingsaid distributer over the outlet end of said chute and operatively connecting said distributer and said chute when the distributer is lowered into operative position adjacent thereto.

6. In combination, a chute having an open delivery end, a distributing member having an inlet opening, means for hoisting said distributing member to a position adjacent the delivery end of said chute, and means carried by the chute and separate from said hoisting means for engaging and guiding said distributer to a position in which the delivery end of said chute extends into and is received by the inlet opening of said distributer.

In testimony whereof I aiiiX my signature.

EDWARD SANFORD CHARLES.

addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

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